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Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-1595-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-1595-01
Posted Aug 11, 2016
Authored by Red Hat | Site access.redhat.com

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-1595-01 - Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and a clean, pragmatic design. It focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY principle. Security Fix: A cross-site scripting flaw was found in Django. An attacker could exploit the unsafe usage of JavaScript's Element.innerHTML to forge content in the admin's add/change related popup. Element.textContent is now used to prevent XSS data execution.

tags | advisory, web, javascript, xss, python
systems | linux, redhat
advisories | CVE-2016-6186
SHA-256 | 6577b69c7abe4cd79ad8dd56fd8ee2632139dbe9c7f3ac0e400e0e80901f5b24

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-1595-01

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: python-django security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1595-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1595.html
Issue date: 2016-08-10
CVE Names: CVE-2016-6186
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1. Summary:

An update for python-django is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 - noarch

3. Description:

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid
development and a clean, pragmatic design. It focuses on automating as much
as possible and adhering to the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle.

Security Fix(es):

* A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in Django. An attacker could
exploit the unsafe usage of JavaScript's Element.innerHTML to forge content
in the admin's add/change related popup. Element.textContent is now used to
prevent XSS data execution. (CVE-2016-6186)

Red Hat would like to thank the upstream Django project for reporting this
issue.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1355663 - CVE-2016-6186 django: XSS in admin's add/change related popup

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7:

Source:
python-django-1.8.14-1.el7ost.src.rpm

noarch:
python-django-1.8.14-1.el7ost.noarch.rpm
python-django-bash-completion-1.8.14-1.el7ost.noarch.rpm
python-django-doc-1.8.14-1.el7ost.noarch.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-6186
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
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